Politics: World Political News

Look at the action and inaction of President Muhammadu Buhari. The action or inaction and absence of leadership in times of crisis and emergencies speak volumes to the type of president and government we have. It also sheds light on our stupidity as a people for electing fools.

Vladimir Putin served as president of Russia, and was re-elected to the presidency in 2012. He previously served as Russia’s prime minister. Vladimir Putin, a judo black belt, appears to symbolise two of the martial art’s key qualities – guile and aggression. Putin has made no secret of his determination to reassert Russian power after years of perceived humiliation by the US and its Nato allies.

The current state of emergency, which is expected to last until August 2018, is the second state of emergency to be declared in Ethiopia in the last two years. In August last year, Ethiopia lifted a 10-month state of emergency imposed after hundreds of people were killed in anti-government protests, demanding wider political freedoms.

Rawlings, contrary to the Assin Central MP’s claim, he [Rawlings]and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman had no interest in the business. Kennedy Agyapong alleged that Mr Rawlings and his wife were shielding a ‘dubious’ business interest of Mr Marwan, the CEO and Chairman of Air Cargo Company at the Kotoka International Airport.

Vladimir Chizhov, Moscow’s EU ambassador, said Russia has no chemical weapons stockpiles and was not behind the poisoning. “Russia had nothing to do with it,” Chizhov told BBC. Boris Johnson said it was “not the response of a country that really believed itself to be innocent.”

While Vladimir Putin has seven challengers on the ballot, none is a real threat. The last time he faced voters in 2012, he faced a serious opposition movement, but since then he has boosted his popularity thanks to Russian actions in Ukraine and Syria.

Sergei Skripal is a retired Russian military intelligence colonel who was sentenced in 2006 to 13 years in prison, accused of spying for Britain. He was convicted, and later pardoned, for passing the identities of Russian secret agents in Europe to the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).